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Beating natural disasters with Express

Being a channel-driven company, NEC selected Delhi-based Comnet Vision for the implementation of the NEC ExpressCluster software for AV Global
ue to recurring natural disasters and increasing security threats in India, business continuity and disaster management have assumed significant importance in the enterprise community. Businesses today are absolutely cautious about their operations, and they are trying hard to avoid any downtime in order to prevent any loss of business opportunity. Hence, corrective measures need to be taken to ensure business continuity at all times. Middleware solutions are fast emerging as an answer to these challenges. There is a growing desire among enterprises and organizations for affordable middleware solutions that facilitate uninterrupted operations. AV Global, one of the leading logistics solution providers was faced by a similar problem. While the company did have a robust IT team, which was equipped to handle disaster management like situation, internally, it decided to look at third-party service providers, who could do this job for them and free them to focus on their core business strategies. Though the company reached out to various service providers about its need, it finally settled on NEC.

We are thrilled to work with NEC in bringing ExpressCluster high availability solution to the Indian market. We found out that NECs ExpressCluster is the perfect HA and Disaster Recovery software solution, from price-performance and feature-to-feature comparisons. With more and more companies looking for application and database availability, data recovery and business continuity, we can now provide the best solution to our customers
PK SHARMA, director, Comnet Vision

AV GLOBAL CHALLENGES
Implementing plans to ensure business continuity for IT infrastructure is an essential requirement for organizations today. Downtime of important applications is a costly proposition and extended downtime can even be fatal. Downtime in terms of system failures, application failures and OS, result in huge revenue loss for a corporate. ExpressCluster provides protection against planned and unplanned failures of AV Globes IT infrastructure. It acts as a constant server monitor that detects the problem and provides automatic recovery to minimize the server downtime. Speaking over the networking needs of AV Global before the NEC solution, Vijay Mehta, MD, AV Global Corporation said, To be a premiere logistics company, it is important to provide quality service to customer, efficiently and cost effectively. Hence to ensure this, it is critical to have an IT solution that can meet not only current, but also future IT requirements. Therefore, we were looking for a solution which could take care of downtime that resulted from system failures, OS and application failures.

THE NEED
AV Global needed a solution that could take care of system failures, application failures and OS. Hence, in order to have zero downtime, the company chose NEC ExpressCluste software to achieve fast, automatic failover that ensured business continuity and disaster management. Being a channel-driven company, NEC selected Delhi-based Comnet Vision for the implementation of the NEC ExpressCluster software for AV Global Sharing the experience while working with AV Global, PK Sharma, director, Comnet Vision, said We are thrilled to work with NEC in bringing ExpressCluster high availability solution to the Indian market. We found out that NECs ExpressCluster is the perfect HA and Disaster Recovery software solution, from price-performance and feature-to-feature comparisons. With more and more companies looking for application and database availability, data recovery and business continuity, we can now provide the best solution to our customers.

India said, ExpressCluster family of integrated High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) software enables fast recovery and continuous protection of critical applications and data. This software observes system operations, detecting failures and automatically transferring operations to a standby server that continues to carry out application workloads. Unplanned downtime mitigation against hardware, software, and site failures, and planned downtime mitigation against periodic hardware and software maintenance tasks that require system restart are also addressed. We are excited to have Comnet Vision as our partner for delivering NEC ExpressCluster offerings. We look forward to cater to a broader range of organizations, needing the benefits of an integrated High-Availability and Disaster Recovery solution by leveraging the experienced team of our partner, said Guleria.

THE OUTPUT
After the deployment of solution, some of the major benefits AV Global is getting firstly, the logistics system of AV Global is geared up to take peak workloads without experiencing downtime. Moreover, AV Global has not experienced a single interruption of service and has experienced assured business continuity. We have met the challenges of providing 99.99% uptime to its business critical Logi-Sys system and centralized database running on SQL server. Mehta added, The solution provided by NEC meets our expectation, ensures business continuity and protects mission-critical applications. We have significantly benefited from this solution. We hope to see NEC empowering enterprises with more innovative technology solutions in future.
SANDHYA MALHOTRA (sandhyam@cybermedia.co.in) A CyberMedia Publication

THE SOLUTIONS
The solution provided by NEC meets our expectation, ensures business continuity and protects mission-critical applications. The company significantly benefited from this solution. Understanding the need of AV Global, NEC was confident that ExpressCluster will be the one solution for all its worries. Speaking on the solution part, Abhilesh Guleria, country head, IT platform and display solutions bBusiness, NEC

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